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Story Quotes
Every story is worth telling well.
One line here is about recognizing a story too rarely told, another about a lasting preference for tales of the underdog and survival. For similar reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you watch 'E.T.' and say that there are holes in the story because this alien lands, then don't go to the movie! It drives me insane.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every story I do is about people. It's my survival instinct - one person, one story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been wrestling with Kafka since I was an adolescent. I think he's a great aphorist, a great letter writer, a great diarist, a great short story writer, and a great novelist - I'd put novelist last.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm successful in fooling a wire service, I don't really have to do anything else to promote the story.
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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
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When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then a friend of Jim's suggested we make a theme song to explain the story, and this is where the Mads came from. Josh and I wrote it into the theme song.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that when I watch films where the villain is more complex, I find that it makes the heroes more complex and ultimately, in the story, more interesting.
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When I went to Bosnia, I was there to tell someone else's story and I was more methodical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.
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- Nov 07, 2020